Thomas Rawson Birks was once a Fellow of Trinity university, Cambridge and a senior professor of philosophy. This e-book was once first released in 1872, the 12 months of his appointment to the celebrated Knightbridge Professorship. As an energetic Anglican clergyman, Birks engaged energetically in lots of heated theological controversies.

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"First book-length exposition of the denotational (or `mathematical' or `functional') method of the formal semantics of programming languages (in distinction to `operational' and `axiomatic' approaches). Treats different types of languages, starting with the pure-lambda-calculus and progressing via languages with states, instructions, jumps, and assignments.